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...I will not let them end this [legislative] session without changing some of these laws,” Alice O’Lenick, the Republican chair of the board of elections in Gwinnett County, outside of Atlanta, was quoted...
...Kathy Boockvar and County Boards of Elections Relief sought: Tossing out some ballots Current status: Relief granted Number of ballots at issue: Unclear, but expected to be small The Trump campaign sued...
...Mr Trump’s supporters are not backing down, and at the Cherokee County rally, voters across the board were repeating his unsubstantiated claims....
...In Shelby County vs Holder, the Supreme Court removed a requirement that state and local governments must gain clearance from the federal government before changing election laws....
...Polls report a continued migration of suburban voters and college graduates away from the Republican party....
...There should be a way to do things differently in the cities v the counties.” The closure of churches worries him....
...(FT) Romania v Kovesi Bucharest’s centre-left government has stepped up its campaign against its former anti-graft chief, imposing a travel ban and stopping her from speaking to the press....
...I had heard about efforts to make it harder to cast a ballot, from the poll taxes and racist violence in the 1960s to recent efforts in Georgia to purge thousands of voters whose registrations do not exactly...
...The local election board in Hall County, where Gainesville is located, last year agreed to introduce Spanish-language ballots (some 28 per cent of the county’s near-200,000 strong population is of Hispanic...
...The attacks are also a sign that France’s European election campaign is up and running....
...Some 62 per cent of voters in these rural counties voted for Mr Trump in the presidential election, compared with 46 per cent of the total population, UNC found....
...The neck-and-neck polling has raised the stakes in a state that has the potential to be decisive in the outcome of the November election and has a history of razor-thin electoral margins....
...’s anthem on to the board of elections website....
...The US does have a history of local legal tussles in which the risk of electoral fraud balanced against voter access, covering matters such as photo identification, early voting, same-day registration and...
...(TPM) Campaign commentary It is time to panic over the polls (Jonathan Chait, NYMag) Why Trump shouldn’t be president (NYT editorial board) The minivan v the Maserati (Nicole Wallace, NYT) Clinton’s...
...These include shorter periods for early voting, separate registration regimes for state and municipal elections, at-large voting systems and laws requiring voter identification....
...Its impact may already have been seen in a lower than hoped for voter registration on the coast – just 1.1m out of a total 14.4m nationally. Either way, coastal support is important to ensure victory....
...“I will defend the right of every citizen of this state – including judges, teachers, city, county and state officials – to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty and government.”...
...On my 11th and final visit of the election year to Ohio I intended to get to grips with this “confusion” - and with mine. I chose Clark County for three reasons....
...the outcome rested on a relatively small number of counties in key battleground states - voters in specific target constituencies will be bombarded with election paraphernalia and big name politicians,...
...Party machine to recruit volunteers three months earlier than usual, he set the targets for Republican voter turnout county by county, he has forced the investment in the registration of Republican voters...
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